I can go to Germany, kill a bunch of people, tell everybody I am modeling myself after the chief of the German National Police and then they'll call for a ban on German National Police Chiefs.
Sounds like a plan!
You know, I became a better mechanic as well and that brings up yet another topic that is related to the original...
That is how we are all getting more disconnected from our technology.
The MG was something I *could* fix. Not so, my current 2007 Marshmallow!
I drove an MG for several years and became a better driver for it. And "driver" is the word. People nowadays expect their automobiles to be living rooms on wheels so it is no wonder they don't have a sense of "road feel". This is the same psychology that attempts to hide from airline passengers the fact you're in an airplane. Compare riding in a small plane to an airliner. The modern airliner is as close to not flying as you can get.
We spend an inordinate amount of time watching, using and living in machines.
Good point. And perhaps closer to what I'm getting at. Not meaning to sound isolationist but why not an antidote to the www based on "think global but act local"?
One solution we are seriously considering is establishing an intranet for the locals. Our area is small enough we could do it wirelessly with repeateers in the outlying areas....
"...the first tangible move toward making federal legislative data available to the public in bulk, so third parties can mash it up and redistribute it in innovative and accessible ways."
Meaning the MFers will start *charging* us for crap we should be getting for free. And for those who say "Naw, they wouldn't... wanna bet?
"LimeWire's new version lets people create private darknets with contacts on any Jabber server (like GMail or LiveJournal). It's different than the recent p2p darknet announcement because it doesn't use onion routing."
For some reason reading that statement brings to mind Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Shortly after 9/11 one of the principal architectural firms working on the Pentagon renovation posted all of their CAD drawings on a publicly available ftp server.
I was working for a subcontractor at the time. When I contacted them to ask "WTF are you doing? Why not just post an ad in the Washington Post offering to give away all this information?" I was told by the system admin that it wasn't a problem because they hid the files on the ftp server using "an obscure folder name that nobody will be able to figure out".
In other words, they posted the Pentagon's infrastructure in a folder called "/erwtn0tun-29358yt29832hncnf2h2ui2h 3fh3nc/" on their public ftp server because nobody would be able to find it in the open!!!
Except I did. When I mentioned it to other people the response was "well, you can't bite the hand that feeds you" and all that rot.
Of course, the ftp server was running on MS IIS and their web server was misconfigured at the same time so you could see everything ELSE on the server...
Government & security (to me) are laughable.
I was speaking rhetorically (but that may be too big a word for you to understand and it certainly didn't require your rude response).
My point being that censorship is abhorrent and I am willing to support its abolition.
...but my daughter spent a summer there a few years aback and loved it and I've always admired the people so let me ask...
Who can I send money to in order to get Conroy voted out of office ASAP?
I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices this stuff. Not that it will do any good.
These kinds of "authoritative citations" are no better to me than what I used to hear "in the old days" - that is, "I heard it on TV so it must be true!"
Remember when Windows was called a shell that sat on top of DOS? Isn't this what the aim should be... pretty pictures as an *optional* cover *to* an efficient OS, minus all that bloat that has been added over the years?
Slashdot Mirror
*My* brain mimics a brain with 200,000 neurons.
I can go to Germany, kill a bunch of people, tell everybody I am modeling myself after the chief of the German National Police and then they'll call for a ban on German National Police Chiefs. Sounds like a plan!
for a phone that's smart enough to quit dropping the damn calls. That's the only smart phone I'm interested in owning.
You mean "chains we can believe in."
fromt the 70s... What a coincidence we had a horrible economy when Earthquake (with Sensurround) came out!
You know, I became a better mechanic as well and that brings up yet another topic that is related to the original... That is how we are all getting more disconnected from our technology. The MG was something I *could* fix. Not so, my current 2007 Marshmallow!
I drove an MG for several years and became a better driver for it. And "driver" is the word. People nowadays expect their automobiles to be living rooms on wheels so it is no wonder they don't have a sense of "road feel". This is the same psychology that attempts to hide from airline passengers the fact you're in an airplane. Compare riding in a small plane to an airliner. The modern airliner is as close to not flying as you can get. We spend an inordinate amount of time watching, using and living in machines.
they're found on earth now!
Maybe they could market it by placing DVDs in that coffee table book about coffee tables.
Good point. And perhaps closer to what I'm getting at. Not meaning to sound isolationist but why not an antidote to the www based on "think global but act local"? One solution we are seriously considering is establishing an intranet for the locals. Our area is small enough we could do it wirelessly with repeateers in the outlying areas....
"...the first tangible move toward making federal legislative data available to the public in bulk, so third parties can mash it up and redistribute it in innovative and accessible ways." Meaning the MFers will start *charging* us for crap we should be getting for free. And for those who say "Naw, they wouldn't... wanna bet?
"LimeWire's new version lets people create private darknets with contacts on any Jabber server (like GMail or LiveJournal). It's different than the recent p2p darknet announcement because it doesn't use onion routing." For some reason reading that statement brings to mind Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Who's whining? I just asked a question. And what is a "maroon"?
No, what I was saying was: "How much does it cost to place these ads on /.?"
How much does it cost to place these ads on /.?
Really.
Shortly after 9/11 one of the principal architectural firms working on the Pentagon renovation posted all of their CAD drawings on a publicly available ftp server. I was working for a subcontractor at the time. When I contacted them to ask "WTF are you doing? Why not just post an ad in the Washington Post offering to give away all this information?" I was told by the system admin that it wasn't a problem because they hid the files on the ftp server using "an obscure folder name that nobody will be able to figure out". In other words, they posted the Pentagon's infrastructure in a folder called "/erwtn0tun-29358yt29832hncnf2h2ui2h 3fh3nc/" on their public ftp server because nobody would be able to find it in the open!!! Except I did. When I mentioned it to other people the response was "well, you can't bite the hand that feeds you" and all that rot. Of course, the ftp server was running on MS IIS and their web server was misconfigured at the same time so you could see everything ELSE on the server... Government & security (to me) are laughable.
I was speaking rhetorically (but that may be too big a word for you to understand and it certainly didn't require your rude response). My point being that censorship is abhorrent and I am willing to support its abolition.
...but my daughter spent a summer there a few years aback and loved it and I've always admired the people so let me ask... Who can I send money to in order to get Conroy voted out of office ASAP?
is the "field of technology?"
That sounds too much like it came from Dr. Science:
"I'm not a real doctor"
"He's got his Masters degree"
"In Science"
I've got a news item about Craig Shergold. Really, it's news. Can I post it here?
I was taught it *takes* almost 1000 hamsters to make a jacket.
What about the latest soap opera or miniseries or news program?
I don't watch soaps. I live them.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices this stuff. Not that it will do any good. These kinds of "authoritative citations" are no better to me than what I used to hear "in the old days" - that is, "I heard it on TV so it must be true!"
Remember when Windows was called a shell that sat on top of DOS? Isn't this what the aim should be... pretty pictures as an *optional* cover *to* an efficient OS, minus all that bloat that has been added over the years?